The Middle Passage
- 3 leg journey
- first leg-
- manufactured goods to Africa
- Second leg-
- transported African men, women, and children to the Americas
- Third leg-
- exported to Europe the sugar, rum, cotton, and tobacco produced by the enslaved labor force
- first leg-
- Over 30,000 documented journeys
- Journey lasted 1-3 months
- Regulations said that the ships could transport 350 people, but most transported 800-1000
- Passengers stripped naked, branded, whipped, starved, and crammed into the crawlspaces of the ship
- Death by scurvy, smallpox, and dysentery were very common
- About 1/2 of the departing passengers would make it to the Americas
- Passengers chained together and crammed into spaces less than 5 feet high